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Sweathouse in Crowsgap

Sweathouse

What is recorded here

On a gentle ENE-facing slope, with a house c. 150m to the ESE. Oval drystone-built structure (int. dims 1.4m N-S; 1.1m E-W; max. H 0.75m) within the remnants of a mound (diam. c. 2m) which would have opened to the N, but neither the doorway nor the roof survive.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record RO042-054

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  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • AmandaMcCrann, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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